Prompt 1 : The activities in the Mismeasure of Man and the individuals discussed in last night’s reading that match Swales benchmark for a discourse community in a couple ways. One being Swales “a discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among it’s members”. The communication between scientists and their findings. They were citing each other in their work.
Prompt 2 : The way that this discourse community spread the knowledge they were responsible for creating by academic journals the spreading of information from scientists. By citing each other as well as the establishment itself.
Prompt 3 : the way that they set the foundation for American Jim Crow laws (segregation) is by the writing that they kept in their academic journals. I think that it showed the discrimination of studies that tried to fake that blacks were inferior with their research (using science to not give citizenship) with study of comparison of a black man to chimpanzee (reference HW 2/13).
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